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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 109
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David speaks of the cursings due to the wicked and deceitful—He prays that his adversaries shall be confounded.
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<center><span class='small'>TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, A PSALM OF DAVID.</span></center>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
Hold</span> not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 109: 30 (29-30).">lying</a> tongue.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/4a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Ps. 109: 4 And, notwithstanding my love, they are my adversaries; yet I will continue in prayer for them.">For</a> my love they are my adversaries: but I <i>give myself unto</i> prayer.
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 15.">hatred</a> for my love.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/6a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB an adversary, accuser; Zech. 3: 1.">Satan</a> stand at his right hand.
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When he shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="James 2: 13; Hel. 8: 25; D&C 10: 23 (20-23); D&C 121: 24 (23-25).">judged</a>, let him be condemned: and let his <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/109/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 28: 9; Mosiah 11: 25 (24-25).">prayer</a> become sin.
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Let his days be few; <i>and</i> let another take his <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 1: 20 (16-20).">office</a>.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek <i>their</i> <i>bread</i> also out of their desolate places.
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Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR creditors seize.">extortioner</a> catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
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Let his <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 21: 10 (10-11); Ps. 37: 28; Isa. 14: 20; 2 Ne. 24: 20; D&C 121: 15 (13-15).">posterity</a> be cut off; <i>and</i> in the generation following let their name be <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/109/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 26: 36; Alma 5: 57 (56-58); D&C 20: 83.">blotted</a> out.
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Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 5.">iniquity</a> of his fathers be remembered with the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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Let them be before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 86: 1; Alma 5: 55 (54-56); Hel. 6: 39 (39-40); D&C 56: 16.">poor</a> and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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Let it be unto him as the garment <i>which</i> covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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<i>Let</i> this <i>be</i> the reward of mine adversaries from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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But do thou for me, O <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> the Lord, for thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 23: 3; Ps. 25: 11; Ps. 31: 3.">name</a>’s sake: because thy mercy <i>is</i> good, deliver thou me.
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For I <i>am</i> poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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I became also a reproach unto them: <i>when</i> they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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Help me, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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That they may know that this <i>is</i> thy hand; <i>that</i> thou, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, hast done it.
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Let them <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curse</a>, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 71: 13.">shame</a>, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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I will greatly praise the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
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For he shall stand at the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/109/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 16: 8.">right</a> hand of the <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/109/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 56: 18 (15-18).">poor</a>, to save <i>him</i> from those that condemn his soul.
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